This is by far the dumbest rule ever! What happened to the game? Do we not want the underdog to show 1:36 or are we just wanting all of the big buck players to get their money is worth?
Just when I thought Rob Manfred & the league owners could not do anything dumber than banning the infield shift & instituting the ghost-runner rule, they manage to surpass themselves in terms of stupidity.
@@AndrewRoyy It depends on which rules we're discussing. We desperately needed a pitch clock because pitchers were taking too long to throw, while hitters were taking too long to get back into the batter's box. It helped to reduce the length of a 9-inning game by roughly 30 minutes. The enlarged bases were needed to encourage more stolen base attempts. I know that I'll get alot of grief for this, but the universal DH was needed. Pitchers, with very few exceptions, were not even trying to get on base. The banning of the infield shift was terrible. It only enabled stubborn & lazy dead-pull hitters to remain that way. They should suffer the consequences for their stubborn refusal to become better opposite-field hitters. The ghost-runner rule is easily the dumbest existing rule in sports, today. It doesn't make any sense for any runner to be on base when no pitches have even been thrown. I know that the ghost-runner rule exists in international competition, but it's still a nonsensical rule. The "golden batter" rule is going to mess up each manager's batting order, & would probably force even more pitching changes than before. I remember when there were hard-throwing lefty specialists & submarine-throwing righty specialists. That was more annoying than having multiple relief pitchers facing the batting order once each. Somehow, Rob Manfred has managed to further confirm the statement that stupidity has no limits.
Please no.
i agree
This is by far the dumbest rule ever! What happened to the game? Do we not want the underdog to show 1:36 or are we just wanting all of the big buck players to get their money is worth?
I agree with you I love the underdog story’s
Just when I thought Rob Manfred & the league owners could not do anything dumber than banning the infield shift & instituting the ghost-runner rule, they manage to surpass themselves in terms of stupidity.
@@TommyBuskulic-u2k I would agree some of the rule are interesting
@@AndrewRoyy It depends on which rules we're discussing. We desperately needed a pitch clock because pitchers were taking too long to throw, while hitters were taking too long to get back into the batter's box. It helped to reduce the length of a 9-inning game by roughly 30 minutes.
The enlarged bases were needed to encourage more stolen base attempts.
I know that I'll get alot of grief for this, but the universal DH was needed. Pitchers, with very few exceptions, were not even trying to get on base.
The banning of the infield shift was terrible. It only enabled stubborn & lazy dead-pull hitters to remain that way. They should suffer the consequences for their stubborn refusal to become better opposite-field hitters.
The ghost-runner rule is easily the dumbest existing rule in sports, today. It doesn't make any sense for any runner to be on base when no pitches have even been thrown. I know that the ghost-runner rule exists in international competition, but it's still a nonsensical rule.
The "golden batter" rule is going to mess up each manager's batting order, & would probably force even more pitching changes than before. I remember when there were hard-throwing lefty specialists & submarine-throwing righty specialists. That was more annoying than having multiple relief pitchers facing the batting order once each.
Somehow, Rob Manfred has managed to further confirm the statement that stupidity has no limits.
@@TommyBuskulic-u2k the only ones I like are Dh and pitch clock rules
@@AndrewRoyy Understood.
@@TommyBuskulic-u2k 😎